They discovered the upper portions of the River Murray, which they crossed somewhere in the neighbourhood of the present town of Albury.

The river was then called the Hume, but it was subsequently called the Murray by Captain Charles Sturt, who heads the list of Australia's heroes with the title of The Father of Australian Exploration.
In 1827 Sturt made one of the greatest discoveries of this century--or at least one of the most useful for his countrymen--that of the River Darling, the great western artery of the river system of New South Wales, and what is now South-western Queensland.

In another expedition, in 1832, Sturt traced the Murrumbidgee River, discovered by Oxley, in boats into what he called the Murray.

This river is the same found by Hovell and Hume, Sturt's name for it having been adopted.

He entered the new stream, which was lined on either bank by troops of hostile natives, from whom he had many narrow escapes, and found it trended for several hundreds of miles in a west-north-west direction, confirming him in his idea of an inland sea; but at a certain point, which he called the great north-west bend, it suddenly turned south and forced its way to the sea at Encounter Bay, where Flinders met Baudin in 1803.